Gigabyte Technology has launched its latest GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard featuring AMD's 890GX chipset paired with SB850 southbridge. The motherboard is capable of supporting most of AMD's latest CPUs including the six-cores models.

The GA-890GPA-UD3H offers native support for SATA 6Gbps technology for connection of up to 6 devices, as well as 3x USB Power Boost technology and USB 3.0 through NEC's controller.

The GA-890GPA-UD3H also features the integrated ATI Radeon HD 4290 GPU with DirectX 10.1 support and 128MB of DDR3 sideport memory.

In 2018, global server shipments will grow 8.5% to reach 13.73 million units. Digitimes Research estimates server shipments worldwide will grow at a CAGR of 6.5% during the period 2017-2022, with growth mainly driven by large-scale data centers and the China market.

Digitimes Research estimates total shipments of smartphone APs worldwide will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018. The slowing growth in the smartphone market means global smartphone AP shipments will only grow at a mild pace in the next few years, reaching 1.77 billion units in 2021.